Sahdiah
Sahdiah is the Talloch-Te archon who uses Traveler logistics as deniable sensors — ordering interference against the Diligent’s ZPZ bid, tasking Medusa after Marcellu’s death, and burning for Dolod when Medusa’s message reaches her.
Talloch-Te body and Crown politics
Talloch-Te Celestials are not Crown-style two-eyed humanoids. Sahdiah’s primary biological body has five eyes; when the Dolod problem closes in, that body opens all five inside its nurture chamber. Like other Talloch-Te, she works a multi-body architecture — a primary body, secondary bodies that can carry partitioned mind, and the ability to re-integrate — and can bodymorph, including a “gravity form” humans find less disturbing than her other shapes. The dominion is also a major ship-fabrication power and a heavy helium-3 consumer. Verak aligns with Talloch-Te, and Wynid with Heresy; Sahdiah is the Talloch-Te intelligence face of that rivalry.
ZPZ denial and Marcellu
Sahdiah asks Marcellu (with Andino on the Arcadia’s Moon) to prevent the Diligent from acquiring a ZPZ generator. After Liliana kills Marcellu with a cherenkov blade, Sahdiah summons Medusa, suspects Olomo, and sets her to investigate.
Endgame convergence
Medusa’s late message sends Sahdiah toward Dolod. She and Olomo trade accusations before realizing neither authored the Engine crisis. Asahi-Iryna is later dispatched after both foreign archons and the fleeing arkship.
